2008 Web Predictions — What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008? In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us. Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems …

Apple and Google, telecom's new stars — It was Apple and Google—not the traditional phone companies AT&T and Verizon Communications—that took center stage in the telephony market in 2007. — In January, Apple announced the iPhone and named AT&T its exclusive carrier in the U.S. For almost six months …

Send email attachments up to 5GB with AOL's Xdrive — While most web-based email services have file attachment size limits, there are plenty of ways around those limitations. MailBigFile, YouSendIt, Driveway, and other services all let you “park” large files temporarily online and send …

Storm-Bot stripshow analysis — Merry Christmas from the RBN. Now on a PC near you, a stripshow from Santa's helpers. Or not. — The ISC reported the expected Storm surge Christmas eve at 0000 GMT. — hxxp://merrychristmas.com/stripshow.exe (modified to protect the innocent) yields a hash of 2BBA62FBC3B9AF85C3C7D64A82E1237C.

Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill — Democrats in 2007 controlled both chambers of Congress for the first time in a dozen years—and with the power shift came a scattershot year for technology policy. — Sweeping initiatives like elevating minimum wage and lowering prescription drug prices …

2007: The Year in RSS — This past year was a big one for RSS. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, was the backbone of all early developments in the new era of the internet. It made blogs readable, podcasts subscribable, wikis trackable and search persistent.

Quoted in the News? Post a Comment, Please — THE days when the journalist had the last say about a subject are long gone. This thought is usually expressed by repeating — and then dismissing as outdated — the words of A. J. Liebling: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

ComScore: Last Week Saw Strong Online Shopping — E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week's brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore. — Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a “flurry” …